Flood: Wrestling With The Mississippi Vocabulary Quiz
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This vocabularyquizzes sixth graders on an excerpt of Flood: Wrestling the Mississippi by Patricia Lauber found in their Harcourt textbook.
- 1.Which of these defines the word floodplain?
- A.
An artificial lake where water is collected for use
- B.
Artificial embakements or built up land to prevent flooding
- C.
Level, flat land that may be submerged or covered by floodwaters
- 2.If water has reached its highest point then we say it has _______________.
- A.
Leveed
- B.
Crested
- C.
Seeped
- D.
Yearned
- 3.What is the difference between the words "yearned" and "awed"?
- A.
Being awed shows respect or amazement and yearned is something you do to stop a flood.
- B.
Yearned is a deep longing or desire and awed describes a flooded area of land.
- C.
Awed is having showed an emotion of fear or respect or amazement and yearned is having longed for or desired something.
- 4.A _______________ is something manmade and is built up to prevent flooding.
- A.
Levee
- B.
Reservoir
- C.
Floodplain
- 5.Water is seeping when it is ?
- A.
Moving violently through a floodplain
- B.
Has reached its highest point
- C.
Flowing or passing slowly through small openings
- 6.
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Floodplain
- B.
Reservoir
- C.
Levee
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